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14 Cards in this Set
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What was one of the few places still in Union hands?
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Fort Sumter, in Charleston harbor in South Carolina.
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Who was the new president during this time?
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Abraham Lincoln
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What was the fort desperately short of?
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supplies
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What would happen if Lincoln surrender?
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It might reassure the South that the North did not want war.
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The type of supplies Lincoln wanted to send in?
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nonmilitary supplies.
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What marked the beginning of the Civil War?
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The shots fired at Fort Sumter
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How many days did the soldiers serve for?
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90 days
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What did northerners rush to do?
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Enlist
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What happen on April 17?
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Virginia seceded.
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What states were Confederate states?
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Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
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What did leaders on both sides wonder?
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What Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri would do.
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What were border states?
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Slaveholding states still in the Union, on the border of the Confederacy.
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What state had a few slaveholders?
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Delaware.
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What was the most critical state?
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Maryland
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